“[My Husband] gave me another piece by the very talented Holly Bennett for my birthday. I love them both - they make me happy, in a complicated way. And I feel they belong together.”

“Hi Holly. Thought you would like to hear that your beautiful sculpture has just arrived. I am delighted with it - it is so delicate and I love it’s ‘movement.’ It now has pride of place on our mantelpiece - I can’t stop looking at it! Thank you so much.”

“Hi Holly. Thanks again for sending my sculpture; it has arrived safely and has pride of place on my mantelpiece. I smile each time I see it and will continue to do so.”

“Holly’s work stood out amongst a very strong field of submissions for our graduate show ‘Future Edit’. It is original in material and process, but what we really loved was the sense of personality that each piece is imbued with – they are extremely characterful sculptures that demand your attention. We felt that her work had a strong commercial appeal and that her pieces demanded to be seen by a broad audience.”

“I was very intrigued by Holly’s sculpture – which we at The Bath Magazine included in a feature on last year’s creative graduates from UWE and Bath Spa universities. Her work is full of fun and energy, but it has aesthetic weight, too, in particular the balance between the colourless figures and the mouthwatering flourishes of colourful shapes and creatures interacting with them. I find her work makes you wonder, even once you’ve looked away, about why these amorphous men are making their escape so urgently to the left with mythological coloured creatures under their arms. And why ‘O Man’ is so obsessed and connected with the letter ‘O’. It’s perhaps a lesson that uplifting and engaging artwork doesn’t need to be intense, agonised and inward looking.”